On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2017 9:09 PM, "standa mitrega" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > Are there any ideas / plans to use meld as tool to compare json files? > Comparing json files as plain text files doesn't provide best results. > It's better if there is some context-aware comparison on each level of json > strucure. > > Or maybe yaml files. As json is just subset of yaml. > > Was there discussion regarding such functionality? > > > I'm not sure what you had in mind, but if you're thinking of doing a > structure aware comparison, then no that's not a thing that Meld is likely > to do. The algorithms for doing this are extremely different to a standard > diff, and the user interface would also have to be quite different. > > Cheers, > Kai > > > _______________________________________________ > meld-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list > If you need to diff JSON files (or any structured text for that matter), I'd suggest you find/write an app that pretty-prints the text; one element per line, (ie lots of new-lines) and then run meld on the two post processed files.
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